Entries Tagged as 'Hyundai'

On 24 October 2011 I stopped by your dealership to have your service department order replacement floor mats from my Elantra (I’ve enclosed a copy of the service order for your reference, since it appears no one at your dealership is capable of locating any record of it); after waiting over six months for Palmer’s Airport Hyundai to get in the mats I had no tolerance left for their exceedingly poor service-after-the-sale. I left my old mats with the service department, and requested that the new mats simply be left in the plastic bag and was told that that would not be an issue.

That wasn’t the first time I visited your dealership, I’d actually been there twice earlier in the year when I was looking to purchase a new vehicle; to say that I was less than impressed by your sales staff would be the politest way possible to convey my true feelings.

In February I contacted your dealership after over three months of having no status information on my replacement mats, only to be told that Hyundai kept sending the wrong color mats, and that another attempt would be made. You’ll have to ask your staff why they needed to wait for a call from me to “try again” and why they would have waited three months to try and resolve this issue.

Last Tuesday I called to check on the mats and was told that they were in (actually I was told that they had been in, again, you’ll have to check with your staff to determine why I wasn’t advised the mats were in via telephone or a post card).

I told the individual that I would be in on Saturday, he instructed me to go to the parts counter since service wasn’t open. He did not indicate that I would need anything to pick up the mats.

NOTE: Service was in fact open (as I came to find out), of course your web site and the sign on the door said that it wasn’t, and I was berated by one of your staff for going to parts rather than service.

As I had committed in my phone conversation, Saturday 3 March 2012, I arrived at your parts desk, only to discover that while your staff could locate my floor mats, they couldn’t locate any record of the service order, any record of them being a warranty claim (payment status), nor had any instructions been left.

I was told I should have this and that – your entire staff seemed to hold me responsible for the failings of countless individuals along the course of the four months I’d been patiently waiting for these mats to appear.

Then the service adviser on staff injected himself into the situation with a most abrasive and arrogant air. Rather than asking for information, he just started to make assumptions and then asked for my keys to get the VIN and mileage.

After an hour, I found that your staff had elected to put the floor mats into my vehicle (I already had floor mats in my vehicle – I had no need for these to be put in; after all, I had been without the Hyundai floor mats I had purchased with my vehicle for over four months); when I had never asked for that to be done, and in fact on my first visit has specifically requested the mats be left in their packaging. When I pointed this out I was told that my old mats would need to be returned in the packaging and that they would remove the new mats from my vehicle and place them in another bag. I have yet to inspect the new floor mats to see if they are defective; but I assure you I will get around to checking them out much more timely than the replacements were delivered to me.

To say that I was upset at the poor level of service, and the non-existent communication on the part of your staff is a great understatement.

I’ll underscore that the only individual in your entire dealership who ever attempted to express any empathy, remorse, or apologize was the cashier in the parts department (or course, she also displayed the same “you should have…” attitude). No one else at your dealership has in anyway expressed anything other than assessing the “blame” for this entire nightmare on me.

I can assure you that your dealership will never make another penny on my service needs, and that the next time I choose an automobile dealership, it won’t be yours, nor is it likely I’d ever consider another Hyundai.